Rants and Raves on Espresso

There ought to be a law. An Internet law at least. And it goes something like this: take any silly idea, add cats, and multiply your popularity by 10,000.

We swear if we instead remade this Web site as CoffeeCatRatings.com, we’d be peddling endless holiday calendars, photo T-shirts, and immensely popular YouTube videos with no end to the demand in sight. Money for nothing, and your cappuccinos for free. But while we’d be filthy rich Internet sensations, we’d hate ourselves when we wake up in the morning. Ah, such is the angst of the starving artist.

Of Harios and Hairballs

Cat cafés are hardly anything new. They’ve long since ravaged Tokyo and the rest of Japan like Godzilla on a medical marijuana munchies binge. There’s even a Wikipedia entry about them: we learn that the first cat café may have originated in Taipei in 1998, that it subsequently became famous in Japan, and the Japanese — masters of the fetish — later decided to roll their own.

One Response to “South Korea’s fetishized coffeeshops: it ain’t just San Francisco”

these cafes are popping all across Korea. There is one in Daegu that even has some kind of fox in cage at the front of the cafe. The thing that should be mentioned is that while there are some extremely good baristas in Korea, there are a lot and I mean a lot of cafes that focus on a concept (like dogs and cats) rather than the coffee itself. Mainly these cafes are used to occupy middle-school girls and couples on dates. Both of which are not concerned with coffee or espresso what-so-ever.